Sweeping all of the swing states, Trump’s was an emphatic victory. And a key reason is that many Americans feel worse off than they were four years ago.
  • Sundial@lemm.ee
    38·
    3 hours ago

    Trump got 2 million less votes than he did in 2020. I think this is more of a case where left-leaning people failed to show up in numbers that led for Biden’s win in 2020.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 hours ago

      Didn’t Democrats raise a record amount of money this election cycle? And they were supposed to use it to get out the vote?

      There is money pouring into these campaigns, and it doesn’t make any difference at all. It’s all just a corporate welfare project for local TV media in swing states.

      • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Democrats seem to consistently get record breaking funding from running aganst Trump, many are probably ecstatic they have four more years of free money from people who hate Trump.

      • Sundial@lemm.ee
        13·
        2 hours ago

        Money only gets you so far. The unfortunate truth is Harris didn’t run a campaign that incentivized people to vote. “Better than Trump” doesn’t bring people to polls.

        • qqq@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 hour ago

          I’m so sick of this; that wasn’t her platform. People constantly saying that was her platform stopped people from actually looking at her platform. I’m so sick of Dems that think they can just not vote because they don’t fall in love with their candidate. Politics is practical and the USA just shit the bed and it will have a real impact on the world. All of the Dems or left leaning people who didn’t vote are complicit.

          • Sundial@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 hour ago

            People need to feel incentivized to vote. The reality is Harris went too far in courting the right and ended up alienating a lot of progressives in the process. There were a lot of warning signs, people just didn’t want to listen.

            • qqq@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 hour ago

              No. https://kamalaharris.com/issues/ this is not too far right. People need to not be so fucking stupid. All of the socialist voters think we’re going to just randomly have a socialist state one presidential cycle? Come on. I don’t buy it. The real fact here is that people who considered themselves unaffected by Trump couldn’t get off their high horse and try to help. You know what drags us more right? Trump winning.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    24·
    3 hours ago

    Thanks COVID. You took our family members, forced us to have to “save the economy” causing inflation and now gave us a dictator. The gift that keeps on giving.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 hours ago

    I don’t wanna hear another damn word out of young, American leftists. They moralized, demanded, complained, and stayed home. Now shut the fuck up and enjoy the destruction of Gaza. Morons